October 16, 2022

Order of Worship

Sunday, October 16, 2022

Welcome and Announcements

Gathering the Family Together

We Are Called to be God’s People

1. We are called to be God’s people, showing by our lives His grace,

One in heart and one in spirit, sign of hope for all the race.

Let us show how He has changed us and remade us as His own;

Let us share our life together as we shall around His throne.

2. We are called to be God’s servants, working in His world today;

Taking His own task upon us, all His sacred words obey.

Let us rise, then, to His summons, dedicate to Him our all,

That we may be faithful servants, quick to answer now His call.

3. We are called to be God’s prophets, speaking for the truth and right;

Standing firm for godly justice, bringing evil into light.

Let us seek the courage needed, our high calling to fulfill,

That we all may know the blessing of the doing of God’s will.

TEXT: Thomas A. Jackson   MUSIC: Franz Joseph Haydn

Call To Worship

Scripture Reading:                                                            I Peter 2:9-10

⁹ But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

¹⁰ Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Prayer of Invocation

Declaring What We Believe

Scripture Reading:                                                          I Peter 1:13-25

Called to be Holy

Leader:

¹³ Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,

¹⁵ but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,

¹⁶ since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”

Congregation:

¹⁷ And if you call on him as Father who judges impartially according to each one's deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile,

¹⁸ knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,

¹⁹ but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.

²⁰ He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you

Leader:

²¹ who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

²² Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

²³ since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God;

²⁴ for

“All flesh is like grass

and all its glory like the flower of grass.

The grass withers,

and the flower falls,

Congregation:

²⁵ but the word of the Lord remains forever.”

And this word is the good news that was preached to you.

Choral Response:

Psalm 133

Refrain: God of love and mercy, bring peace to all your people.

1. How Good when all the earth is one, and hearts embrace community;

When strife will cease to separate, and love binds all in unity.

Refrain: God of love and mercy, bring peace to all your people.

2. As oil anointed Aaron’s head, and dew adorns the mountainside,

So peace and blessing of the Lord within the faithful heart abide.

Refrain: God of love and mercy, bring peace to all your people.

Refrain text: Hal H. Hopson © 2008 Verses text: Michael Morgan © 1999. Music; Refrain: Hal H. Hopson © 2008   Verses Tune: Scarborough Fair, a traditional English folksong (PD)

We Respond to God’s Presence

Rejoice

1. Rejoice in the Lord, now and always, sing it again, we rejoice.

Delight in the love He has shown us, gratefully lift up your voice.

His gentleness among us will join our hearts with praise.

We gather in His goodness, a family of grace.

Refrain:

With each breath He’s given, praise the Lord!

In these times we live in, we will praise the Lord.

Throughout every season, I am sure

we have every reason to praise the Lord.

2. Rejoice and be anxious for nothing, praying for all that you need.

Come with a song of thanksgiving; lay your requests at His feet.

His peace will fall upon us, to guard our hearts and minds

In Christ, who reigns eternal; the Shepherd of our lives.

Repeat Refrain

3. Rejoice in the Lord, now and always; tell of the good He has done.

Worship the Lord, to remember all of the joy yet to come.

The hope that burns within us the dark cannot destroy,

With praise that’s never ending, we say again, “Rejoice!”

Repeat Refrain

We have every reason to praise the Lord.

Words and Music by Keith Getty, Kristy Getty, Ben Shive, Skye Peterson and Bryan Fowler. © 2022 Getty Music Publishing (BMI)/Getty Music Hymns and Songs (ASCAP)/Junkbox Music (ASCAP)/adm. at MusicServices.com/RESWOF (SESAC)/So Essential Tunes (SESAC)/ adm at EssentialMusicPublishing.com 

Red Hymnal #338                      “We Sing the Greatness of Our God”

Children’s Sermon

Pastoral Prayer

The basket to receive His tithes and our offerings

is located on the left as you leave the Sanctuary.

We Worship Through Hearing

Sermon Hymn:

Not for Tongues of Heaven’s Angels

1. Not for tongues of heaven’s angels, not for wisdom to discern,

Not for faith that masters mountains, for this better gift we yearn.

      Refrain: May love be ours, O Lord.

2. Love is humble, love is gentle, love is tender, true, and kind.

Love is gracious, ever patient, generous of heart and mind.

      Refrain: May love be ours, O Lord.

3. Never jealous, never selfish, love will not rejoice in wrong.

Never boastful nor resentful, love believes and suffers long.

      Refrain: May love be ours, O Lord.

4. In the day this world is fading, faith and hope will play their part,

But when Christ is seen in glory love shall reign in every heart.

      Refrain: May love be ours, O Lord.

Words: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b.1926), based on I Corinthians 13 © 1985 Hope Publishing Company. Music (REINLYN): Roy Hopp (b. 1951), 1988, © 1990 Selah Publishing, Inc.

Today’s Message

Sermon Series: Life Through the Lens of the Gospel

“When You Come Together: Build Up”

I Corinthians 14:1-25

Notes

I. How to Use Spiritual Gifts in _______ to Build Up

(I Cor. 14:1-5)

II. What Spiritual Gift to _________________ with when Building Up

(I Cor. 14:6-19)

A. Communicate _________________ God’s Word.

(I Cor. 14:6-12)

B. Communicate so __________ and ________ Worship

(I Cor. 14:13-19)

III. Why One Gift is More ________ and _________ in Building Up

(I Cor. 14:20-25)

We Are Sent Forth in Worship

to Share the Gospel

There is a Higher Throne

1. There is a higher throne than all this world has known,

Where faithful ones from ev’ry tongue will one day come.

Before the Son we’ll stand, made faultless through the Lamb;

Believing hearts find promised grace; Salvation comes.

Chorus:  Hear Heaven’s voices sing; Their thund’rous anthem rings

Through emerald courts and sapphire skies; Their praises rise.

All glory, wisdom, pow’r, strength,

thanks and honour are to God, our King,

Who reigns on high forevermore.

2. And there we’ll find our home; Our life before the throne.

We’ll honour Him in perfect song where we belong.

He’ll wipe each tear stained eye as thirst and hunger die.

The Lamb becomes our Shepherd King; We’ll reign with Him.

Repeat Chorus

Copyright © 2002 Thankyou Music/Adm. by worshiptogether.com songs. excl. UK & Europe, adm. by Kingsway Music. tym@kingsway.co.uk. Used by permission. CCLI #172212

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